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What was the last funeral you watched on telly?

  • 10-11-2012 11:59pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,748 ✭✭✭


    Not just happened to see on the news, but consciously made an effort to watch live. I'm not a big royal family fan or anything but I just thought this is a piece of history that my grandkids will probably ask me about.

    So what was the last funeral that you consciously made an effort to watch?

    Multo autem ad rem magis pertinet quallis tibi vide aris quam allis



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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    barack obama


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 731 ✭✭✭Butterface


    Are there many funerals broadcast live?

    I remember watching Princess Diana's when I was about 9 years old. 'twas a spectacle


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    The one where Dougal set the hearse on fire.


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,931 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    I've never watched any on TV


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,950 ✭✭✭✭scudzilla


    Mickey's from Rocky 2


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,992 ✭✭✭✭partyatmygaff


    Not a funeral as such but the Michael Jackson memorial three years ago.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    Some people really will watch anything


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    Some people really will watch anything

    I'm watching something right now.

    In answer to the OPs question, I watched Benazir Bhuttos funeral.


  • Registered Users Posts: 23 Fixing Good


    Flew Shannon to Chicago with royal Jordanian air just after king Husseins death. Had to endure about 5 hours of the funeral on every screen!! Well it was either that or the rug rats in Arabic!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,748 ✭✭✭SafeSurfer


    keith16 wrote: »
    I'm watching something right now.

    In answer to the OPs question, I watched Benazir Bhuttos funeral.


    Thats Hardcore!

    Multo autem ad rem magis pertinet quallis tibi vide aris quam allis



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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    keith16 wrote: »
    I'm watching something right now.

    In answer to the OPs question, I watched Benazir Bhuttos funeral.

    Is it a funeral?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,080 ✭✭✭EoghanIRL


    I can't say I have


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    Flew Shannon to Chicago with royal Jordanian air just after king Husseins death. Had to endure about 5 hours of the funeral on every screen!! Well it was either that or the rug rats in Arabic!!!


    I had to watch John Tucker must die on a flight to Chicago. Just as painful


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 579 ✭✭✭cartell_best


    I was woken up at 4am to be told Princess Di was after dying and watching and genuinely realising it was a piece of history (after some hours). It was far from being a "spectacle" as one poster said. That was my personal rememberance (as probably towards many) of remembering where they were, especially seeing the funeral taking place.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    Is it a funeral?

    Well, I'm not sure what it's referred to as in that part of the world. It's certainly one death that had an impact on me. Don't know why.

    EDIT: Just saw your bolded text now! It's "Inglorious Basterds". So yes, kind of!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    Nearly everyone watched the Princess Diana funeral. It was car crash television.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,041 ✭✭✭Havermeyer


    Nearly everyone watched the Princess Diana funeral. It was car crash television.

    Ba dum tish.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,538 ✭✭✭flutterflye


    What the what??
    I've been to my mother's funeral, and a guy I used to go out with's, that was enough for me!
    Why the fcuk would you watch a funeral on tv??
    You don't know them - what would the point be?
    And if you did know them, surely you'd be there in person.
    I didn't even know they aired funerals on telly!


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,687 ✭✭✭blacklilly


    Some churches now broadcast funerals on line, (weddings, masses etc are also broadcast)
    Princess Diana was one I watched but wouldnr exactly be uplifting, entertaining tv


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,288 ✭✭✭TheUsual


    Nearly everyone watched the Princess Diana funeral. It was car crash television.

    It's the way I tell em !


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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,145 ✭✭✭LETHAL LADY


    Ayatollah Khomeini twas some film.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,812 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    Pope John Paul II


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,718 ✭✭✭✭JonathanAnon


    Gay Byrne's


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,511 ✭✭✭Old Perry


    Probably Pope J.Paul


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,145 ✭✭✭LETHAL LADY


    Gay Byrne's

    Jaysus I missed that, was it any good and did Wathleen Catkins wear black.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    Michael Collins' at the end of a movie. Michael Collins.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,330 ✭✭✭Gran Hermano


    Twink


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 408 ✭✭certifiedcrepe


    Stephen gately


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,458 ✭✭✭senorwipesalot


    Ayatollah Khomeini twas some film.
    The Peoples Ayatollah.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,056 ✭✭✭tan11ie


    I remember I watched a clip from Jamie Bulgers funeral, It was absolutely heartbreaking. I remember Diana's too.I don't think funerals should be televised though, they should be a private affair.


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